While you’re seething, you can thank the Republicans in Congress for blocking the Paycheck Fairness Act, which would protect workers who discuss their salaries and create stricter penalties for pay discrimination. And be sure to check out these 7 steps we should take to close the gap. I’d like to add an 8th: How about women go on strike from start of the year until Equal Pay Day? I don’t know about you, but I wouldn’t mind coming off a 3-month vacation boycott right about now.

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Maya Dusenbery is an Executive Director in charge of Editorial at Feministing. Maya has previously worked at NARAL Pro-Choice New York and the National Institute for Reproductive Health and was a fellow at Mother Jones magazine. She graduated with a B.A. from Carleton College in 2008. A Minnesota native, she currently lives, writes, edits, and bakes bread in Atlanta, Georgia.

Maya Dusenbery is an Executive Director of Feministing in charge of Editorial.

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The New York Timesconsiders some of the factors that may explain this gap:

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Men in nursing have earned more than women — $7,700 per year in outpatient settings and nearly $3,900 in hospitals — pretty consistently for the last 25 years. That’s according to a new study of 290,000 nurses that controlled ...

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